Love…It’s Messy by Jeannine Colette

LOVE…IT’S MESSY by Jeannine Colette
Love Explained #2
Release Date: July 13th

What to expect:
💍Wedding Planner Heroine
🚒Handsome FirefighterHero
👩‍👧Single Parent
🏡Small Town Romance
🔥Slow Burn
💞Emotional Twists & Turns
‼️ Dynamic Side Characters

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Second-chance romance only works out in movies. In real life, it’s …messy.

I don’t need a man for anything.
Love and romance? Pfft. No thanks. Never again.
Between my career as a wedding planner and being a single mother, I barely have time to think about men.
I wasn’t looking for a hero when I ended up locked outside a hotel that was engulfed in a blazing inferno, wearing nothing but a robe. I would’ve eventually saved myself. Too bad he didn’t give me a chance.
Yep, you guessed it. Luke Incendio, the sexy firefighter who came to my hotel rescue and the man who had caused me to swear off love years ago is one and the same.
Now, he says he wants to make amends. He says he’s never stopped wanting me. His words are laced in regret as he says he made a mistake.
But talk is cheap—and the tingly feelings he inspires in me are not to be trusted. Because this time around, I’m not the only one who’ll get burned if he proves to be unreliable.
And there’s no way I’m going to let that happen.

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EXCERPT

“So, you don’t date at all?”

My dating life isn’t his business. While I don’t owe him an explanation, I very well can’t have him believe I work myself to the bone most weekends in order to avoid the dating scene altogether.

“I’ve gone on a few dates since Ainsley was a year old. Nothing that made it past dessert. I don’t have time to waste on a relationship that might go somewhere. The other night, for example, I went out with a very nice doctor.”

He clears his throat. “Will there be a second date?”

“No,” I state simply.

Luke acts like he understands why. “Dull date, huh? Bummer.”

“The opposite. He was really lovely. Please don’t make fun of me. Melissa gave me grief for my adjective of lovely when describing my date with Eric. For me, lovely is good.”

Luke pauses. I stop as well and look up into his navy eyes, then at his firm features and the confident set of his shoulders.

“Can I ask you a question?” he asks, and I raise my shoulders with a nod. “When I took you out on the beach …” He broods, and I wonder where this is going. “Would you have considered that night we danced with our toes in the sand and laughed until the tide rolled in lovely?”

I fight the shaky way my breath wants to come out and remain steady. “No.”

“Better than lovely?”

“Luke—”

“Just helping you compare it to something. What would you have said it was?”

Different, I want to say. Sweet. Sexy. Exhilarating.

Absolutely perfect.

“It wasn’t a date, but it was fun.”

“Fun,” he muses. “Okay, I need to know then, if that wasn’t a date, what about the afternoon we spent on a catamaran, laughing our asses off in the sun and drinking in the salty air? You were too scared to do it, but you jumped off that cliff. When you hit the water, I was certain you were going to scream at me for pushing you off. I followed and climbed onto the catamaran, ready for a scolding. Instead, you kissed me, and it was the wildest, most passionate kiss in the world. If that wasn’t a first date, then I don’t know what is.”

I want to punch him for bringing up what was single-handedly the best kiss I’d ever had in my life. I also want to kiss him for remembering it all. I was sure he had forgotten the details.

“Exciting,” I answer. “Too exciting, if I recall.”

The glimmer in his eyes dissipates as he takes in my words.

“Exciting didn’t seem to pan out. Maybe lovely is good for you.” Luke turns away but waits for me to start walking before following in step. “Do I make you uncomfortable when I bring up the past?”

Love…It’s Messy by Jeannine Colette
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This story was not easy to read. I wanted to hate Luke I really did for everything he put Jillian through, but the more the story progressed, the more difficult it became to not fall for him like she did 5 years ago.

These two have more downs than ups, but the connection is still there and seeing him again brings back emotions she thought she let go off.

But Jillian is tired of doing everything alone and she knows Luke is more than capable of loving her the way she deserves. It takes a few chapters for him to get his head on straight but the ending is so much more beautiful for it.

***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***

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MEET THE AUTHOR: Jeannine Colette combines humor and angst in her sexy, stand-alone romance novels. Her stories feature dynamic heroines, and swoon-worthy heroes, who have to abandon their reality in order to discover themselves . . . and love along the way.

A graduate of Wagner College and the New York Film Academy, Jeannine went on to become a Segment Producer for television shows on CBS and NBC. She left the television industry to focus on her children and pursue a full-time writing career. She lives in New York with her husband, the three tiny people she adores more than life itself, and a rescue pup named Wrigley.

Jeannine and her family are active supporters of The March of Dimes and Strivright The Auditory-Oral School of New York.